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Wow!
An entire year since I last posted anything here. Doesn't seem that long, I'm genuinely surprised. That's the nature of time though; all timey-wimey-wibbly-wobbly ( Read more... ) -
Something You Don't See Every Day
Here's something you don't read every day ( Read more... ) -
Big News at NASA
I'm really excited. If rumours are true, NASA may in a few days announce their most important message since July 1969 ( Read more... ) -
Stranger than Fiction (again)
The caption for this new Hubble Space Telescope image describes a protoplanetary disk in the Orion Nebula.
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They Actually Invented the Stuff!
Wow! They actually invented the damn stuff. Transparent Aluminum. Life truly is stranger than science fiction. -
Fireflies?
Where have all the fireflies gone? Do they exist anymore?
I'm on the East Coast this week visiting in Nashua, Dartmouth, and Rochester. Saturday, I got to the top of Mt. Washington NH, bringing to a total of seven states I've been to the highest point in.
But the most magical memory of eastern US summers, the fireflies, are missing. What ( Read more... ) -
Space Day
Today is a special day. It was 40 years ago today Apollo 11 rocketed off the pad at Cape Canaveral with the intention of making the first attempt to land on the Moon. I just can't think of a greater achievement of the human spirit and human ingenuity than project Apollo. This is a good day to reflect on the pinnacle of humanity's progress so ( Read more... ) -
Summit!
The first climbers of the Alpine Ascents team are on the roof of the world ( Read more... ) -
Other People's Adventures Pt. 2
Since I'd been posting about their climb, I thought I'd let you all know that the Seattle team has been climbing from the South Col for the past seven hours on their way up the last 3,000 ft. of the Death Zone ( Read more... ) -
Other Peoples' Adventures
It was a nice summer afternoon in Monterey when a Navy Captain strolled into my office to return to me a bit of paper I'd printed off the printer on my desk and mailed to him six months earlier. In the months since I'd seen it, it had traveled 3.9 million miles lapping the Earth 165 times aboard space shuttle Columbia ( Read more... )
